Indian Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew, Vijay Singla, was arrested in Chandigarh[1] on 3 May 2013 by sleuths of India's Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly accepting a bribe of 9 million (9,000,000) rupees from Narayana Rao Manjunath on behalf of Mahesh Kumar, a member of the Indian Railway Board, in exchange for getting a higher ranking position on the Railway Board.
[4] There were demands for the resignation of railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal.
On the very same day Ashwani Kumar, the minister of Law and Order, also had to resign due to allegations on him of viewing the CBI report on Coal Scam even when the Supreme court of India had ordered not to show the report.
[12][13] Singla acquired businesses with diversified interests in real estate, cement, packaging, infrastructure and steel manufacturing over the last decade, thanks to his proximity to the minister.
[5] Many of these companies soon began flourishing after Bansal won the 1991 elections from Chandigarh.